Setting the Summer Table with Coral

Kim Seybert

Isn't this wonderful inspiration for setting the summer table? I love coral and turquoise and would definitely use this even for the Fourth of July in lieu of more traditional red, white, and blue. Here are some great ideas for setting your summer table with coral touches including a DIY.

Green and Turquoise

Thibaut Imperial Garden

A stunning combination of green and turquoise with Chinoiserie wallpaper and fabric.

Green & Blue

Meg Braff

I love this chic combination - Meg Braff's Nanking wallpaper, a Sheraton bench upholstered in Brunschwig & Fils Les Touches, and a turquoise blue trim on the baseboards and woodwork.

Mixing Blues

Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles

Don't be afraid to mix blues. All blues go together. This mantel is a lovely example of mixing turquoise foo dogs with blue and white ginger jars.

The Chinoiserie Dining Room

Palmer Weiss - House Beautiful

A pair of turquoise blue foo dogs, a fretwork console table, a blue and white Chinese garden stool, and deep green walls -Benjamin Moore Seaweed, create a beautiful dining room.

The Blue Chinoiserie Dining Room

dmagazine.com

Such a stunning dining room with turquoise chairs and settee, striped silk taffeta tablecloth, crystal chandelier, and gorgeous Chinoiserie wallpaper. The use of a settee is a very modern element. You don't often see a settee with a round dining table and I really like this look.

Eclectic Chinoiserie

My favorite rooms are always those that have been collected over time, mixing modern with vintage and antique pieces. De riguer for me as well is color, quirkiness, and Chinoiserie, of course.

These rooms in the Savannah home of Robyn Mizrach McClelland from Matchbook magazine are wonderful and perfect examples of what I am talking about. In the room above, I love the wall color, the Barcelona chair, the sheepskin, the gilded mirror, and the gorgeous collection of fan coral mixed with the Chinoiserie pillow, Chinese garden stool, and Imari plates and lamp.

Note the sheepskin draped over the antique chair below as well. Ikea has made a fortune selling those Rens sheepskins and it is a favorite trick of mine as well to keep an antique chair from looking too granny. The coral pink wall color is stunning with the turquoise blue Chinoiserie pieces. I love the stack of magazines topped with a ginger jar and flanked by a pair of red foo dogs in front of the fireplace.

OK you English majors, let's see who can name the guy in the portrait.

The Chinoiserie Dressing Room

Jewelry Designer Stephanie Lake

I am an absolute sucker for a beautiful dressing room and this is absolutely killer. Can you find the Chinoiserie touches? They include a Chinese Chippendale mirror, a turquoise foo dog, a turquoise Chinese man figurine, a turquoise lacquer box, a blue and white Chinese porcelain vase used as a container, a Chinese wooden stand, and my favorite, a dragon above the window. Speaking of the window, check out the gorgeous silk taffeta window treatment all corseted up like a ball gown. I adore the dark walls and the pale blue leather slipper chair, vanity, and vanity chair. The modern rug in purple, orange, and white is a fabulous and unexpected touch. A touch of leopard, of course. Quite a Mary McDonald vibe here. Thanks so much for the head's up from Ellen of Color Calling that this is the vanity of jewelry designer Stephanie Lake featured in Decorati.

CC's Top Ten Chinoiserie Pieces #8

Whether you spell them "foo dogs" or "fu dogs," you can't shake a Chinoiserie stick lately without hitting a blue foo dog. Whether new, vintage, or antique, they add a great pop of color anywhere. A pair deserve a spot in any Chinoiserie lover's home, so they are on my top ten list.

Jonathan Adler Turquoise Greek Key China

Jonathan Adler Turquoise Greek Key China

 Fabulous and very well priced at $50 a place setting.

Blue and White Chinoiserie DIY

 A great idea for a vintage bamboo chair - paint it blue and add Chinoiserie cushions like these Quadrille/China Seas Background in Dark Turquoise on White.

Setting the Chinoiserie Table - Turquoise

Here is a chic juxtaposition - a very traditional Chinoiserie wallpaper and gold pagoda mirror contrasted with modern turquoise benches and table setting.  This is also another great example that your holiday table need not be set with traditional colors like red and green -  the mantle is in turquoise and turquoise ornaments are hung from the candelabra.

August Ideabook on Houzz-Orange and Turquoise Chinoiserie

My new Ideabook for Houzz is up and it is great fun if you love orange and turquoise Chinoiserie. Just click on my Houzz link in my sidebar. And yes, this post does have a pagoda hook since this is pagoda week on CC. This stunning bedroom by Kendall Wilkinson (who will be a featured interior designer in my new series) has pagoda cornices for the window treatments and the fabric Quadrille Paradise Background in Orange on Tint also features pagodas.

My New Favorite Mirror

From Serena & Lily, the Bungalow Mirror, a lacquered turquoise faux bamboo mirror hand made of Chinese elm. Yes, please.

Turquoise Chinoiserie Vases

I love the color of these vases-I especially like the double gourd, from The Source Collection for $20 each. Use Code VALENTINE through February 16th to receive 10% off your order.

Chic Side Table

This campaign style accordion side table from Urban Outfitters is incredibly chic and at $60 an incredible steal. A perfect little perch for a Chinoiserie objet.

Turquoise Chinoiserie

Here is a wonderful Chinoiserie dining room in a condo on Chicago's Gold Coast by Alessandra Branca. Note the turquoise foo dogs, the Chinese Chippendale chairs, the Chinese porcelain, and a fabulous mesh chandelier.

Grotto Bar Stools

A tiny digression from setting the Chinoiserie table, but still in the dining mode, I am insanely in love with these lacquered grotto inspired bar stools. They are available here on 1st dibs. I would cover the seats in turquoise blue leather. Wouldn't this make for a drop dead gorgeous bar or breakfast bar?

Saturday Inspiration-Turquoise Chinoiserie

Domino Magazine without any doubt led the way in the resurgence of wallpaper that we are seeing today. Here is a wonderful example of a turquoise blue Chinoiserie bedroom from the archives. Happy weekend all.

Turquoise Foo Dogs at HomeGoods

I thought you would enjoy seeing what I found at HomeGoods after my Costco run yesterday-this big, beautiful pair of turquoise blue foo dogs. They are large guys, standing 13" tall and were $24.99 a piece. They will be moving to my daughter's apartment in Georgetown tomorrow that I've shown below. Do you see the garden stool in her little entry? It's the same garden stool featured in the last picture of a Charlotte Moss bedroom. It was another HomeGoods score of mine for $19.99.